Presenting a few snaps of Sijua station captured during the Puja holidays.Sijua was a very important station on the now abadoned Dhanbad-Chandrapura railway line. From Dhanbad to Sijua the Dc line was a bidirectional FEDL, barring a small section between Kusunda and Basseria Block Halt, from Sijua onwards it used to be bidrectional FESL towards Katrasgarh side!Note that the signs of inactivity are clearly showing.The...more...

entire premise now lies abandoned and desolate, what was once abuzz with life with the cachophony of trains and passengers alive now lies like a ghost station!Even the station staff have been transferred and barring a isolated cow, no living beings can usually be spotted anywhere in the vicinity of this once lively station............Anyways the OHE are still energised, the signals still active and an ocassional freight train still uses this line......Hope you guys enjoy and appreciate the pictures!Camera used :- Samsung Galaxy Core PrimePicture Source :- SelfStation tagged :- Sijua SJA, Dhanbad DHN, Katrasgarh KTH and Chandrapura CRPPicture 1 :- Tracks going towards Katrasgrah sidePicture 2& 3 :- Overlooking platform number 1 & 2Picture 4,5 & 6 :- The once active lines that would shine are now covered up in rust!Picture 7 :- Main buildingPicture 8 :- Railway overbridgePicture 9 :- Again rust covered lines.Pictured in 10-15 :- An ancient weighing machine dating back to the British rule giving an idea of the historical importance of this line. You will also notice the bell and gong for notifying the arrival and departure timings of the trains.The timetable notifying the arrival and departure timings of now closed DHN-CRP , DHN-MURI & DHN-JGM MEMU! Also shown is the fare chart and some motivational quotations.Picture 16 :- The now abadoned Porter Goomty.Picture 17 :- Another shot of the rusted lines.....................P.S :- A simple look at this stations is enough to guess how Indian railways were during British times! Visting this stations are a step taken back in history as the entire station complex is of British build and has undergone very little change over time! If only IR turned this fantastic station buildings into railway museums as they are definitely worth preserving!Finally, Rest in Peace, DC Line, Thee served well!Arnab

Do-not worry, from what I last heard, people are aggressively protesting the decision...If it happens then the decision to close the DC line citing dangerous to passengers and Goods trains would become a joke !

No double standards in this. The railway and it's employees understand the risks they are taking. It's up to them to decide if they can take the risk. For them, running freights at low MPS is a less risky proposal. Usually nothing much happens to the locomotive in slow speed derailments because of it's huge weight. So the LP's aren't in as much danger as passengers would be. By running freights, they are only taking a calculated risk. It's up to the railway and it's employees to decide whether it's a risk they'd take. But the railway has no right to take the same risk with thousands of passengers. ...more...

And this is nothing new. They are several cases where freights were run on routes declared as unfit for passenger traffic.

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